Q. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Total agree | Total dis-agree | Strong-ly agree | Agree | Dis-agree | Strong-ly dis-agree | Don’t know | Men agree | Women agree | Mar 2016 agree | ||||
Gender equality, meaning that men and women are equal, has come far enough already | 47% | 44% | 16% | 31% | 32% | 12% | 9% | 54% | 39% | 38% | |||
Gender equality has already been mostly achieved | 47% | 46% | 13% | 34% | 35% | 11% | 7% | 56% | 38% | 41% | |||
Work to achieve gender equality today benefits mostly well-to-do people | 45% | 36% | 14% | 31% | 27% | 9% | 19% | 49% | 41% | 39% | |||
There should be laws that require equal salaries for men and women in the same position | 78% | 14% | 39% | 39% | 10% | 4% | 8% | 72% | 84% | 78% | |||
Although there has been significant progress on gender equality there is still a long way to go | 66% | 25% | 23% | 43% | 18% | 7% | 10% | 60% | 71% | 71% |
There was very strong agreement with the statements “there should be laws that require equal salaries for men and women in the same position” (78%) and “Although there has been significant progress on gender equality there is still a long way to go” (66%).
More than half of the men agree that gender equality has mostly been achieved and that gender equality . . . has come far enough but more than half of women disagree.